“When I stepped out onto the veranda that connected to the adjoining bedroom, in front of me was a forest of buildings as far as I could see. Right underneath, a subway train of the Ginza Line was rumbling out from the tunnel, only to disappear again into the belly of the Tokyo Building. In the foreground on the right-hand side, the dome of the planetarium on the rooftop of the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, which no longer exists, was glittering silver. It was a time when I was spending most of my days with a hangover from the previous night’s drinking spree with my friends. Such were the circumstances that this photograph was produced in.”
—Daido Moriyama
This image appeared in Aperture, issue 129, Fall 1992.
©︎ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation, courtesy of AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery.
In celebration of Aperture’s seventieth anniversary, we are pleased to offer this limited-edition print as part of the seventy x seventy print sale. This sale offers a rare opportunity for art enthusiasts to collect original works by some of the most celebrated and influential photographers in the history of the medium while supporting Aperture. Each print is available in an edition of seventy, signed by the artist or estate-stamped. Proceeds from the sale benefit the artist and/or a designated charity of their choice, and provide support for Aperture’s not-for-profit publishing, educational, and public programs.
These works are available to collect through September 30 while prints in the edition remain available.
Image size: 6.2 x 9.4
Paper size: 8 x 10 inches
Edition of 70 and 5 Artist’s Proofs
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered by the artist on a label
Printed by Laumont Editions in New York.
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Black and white wood framing options are available for an additional $100.
Please allow an additional 3 weeks for framed orders to ship.
Mat dimensions: 10 x 12 inches
Frame dimensions: 11 x 13 inches
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Contact prints@aperture.org with any inquiries about the edition or questions regarding shipping.
An adult signature is required for delivery of all limited edition prints.
Daido Moriyama (b. 1938, Osaka, Japan) has been publishing and exhibiting his photography since the 1960s, with a bibliography of over three hundred monographs to his name, including Farewell Photography (1972), Hunter (1972), and Light and Shadow (1982). He received the Japan Photo Critics Association Newcomer’s Award for the photobook Japan, A Photo Theater in 1967. Solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fondation Cartier pour l’arte contemporain solidified Moriyama’s reputation. Moriyama became the first Japanese artist to receive the Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2012. He won the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 2019. His work has been featured in several issues of Aperture magazine, and his photobook Labyrinth was published by Aperture in 2012. Recent publications include Tights in Shimotakaido and Lips! Lips! Lips! (both 2018).
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